IDE's Race

There was a time I remember when we work around with blue screen of Turbo C/C++ or Pascal and wish that some magic should be there in our hands so that rather then we have to go through so much coding we can do it in minutes, and thinking about windows seem a dream on those days, but thnx to those nifty IDE's like VS 6 or Borland's and other products just races us towards that realization, and we see what the RAD mean in real.
But this race is growing now in a rapid race that every one just astonish what’s going on, actually since the adaptation of internet and SOA the scene has been changed drastically, now we have the list of IDE's claiming every feature u can count on for the Requirement analysis to development and from deployment to maintenance. Although we love that we got so many things in just a single place but the load it is bringing with it is becoming worse. Now we have IDE's that took up almost 1 to 2 GB hard space and their memory recommendation has been gained up to minimum of 256 RAM (but i think we should say that at least 512) so such requirements just adding the another extra discomfort ness among the developers, then the newer versions are just coming like a flying horse, until u get equipped with one , u have to be ready for the new one and then certainly it incurs the training to purchase as well (oh yes if u living in licensed environments ha ha ha )
however one couldn’t see the race between giants in this field like Microsoft, IBM, Borland, Sun, BEA etc is taking us , we have to just swim in this rushing water of storm and make our lives saved with this rush in IT world , which is really pushing u on the speed of light
oh yeah don’t forget to check the new IDE's competition between Microsoft and IBM both were now starting a new race that was commonly related with Sun and Microsoft. IBM 's new Environment based upon Rational products and web sphere technologies are becoming challenge to .NET world let see what this brings for us, and don’t forget the silent giant Borland
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